North Quincy High School - Manet Yearbook (North Quincy, MA)

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Traffic Squad Did you ever see anyone driving on the wrong side of the road, or speeding down the wrong way of a one-way street? Well, if you did, you no doubt saw an alert city policeman stop that careless person and either warn him or impose a penalty upon him. That is why North has alert, efficient traffic officers posted at all one-way avenues and rotary intersections-to stop those careless persons who pay not the slightest attention to which way they should go and which way they do go. There are four traiiic captains at North, one for each floor. These captains, john Meskill, Theodore Walter, Phillip Hirtle, and Patricia Waite, are aided by trafiic oiiicers in keeping North's thoroughfares clear and free from all traiiic jams. The squads, cooperating with the teachers appointed to each Hoor, produce a smooth, efficient traffic system. Pupils selected for traffic duty are chosen from the junior and senior classes on the basis of capability, reliability, character, and scholarship. l25l

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Cafeteria Squad Something new has been added! This time that old, familiar phrase does not represent some new vitamin or chemical discovery. No, it introduces the new cafeteria plan so successfully carried out at North this year. Under the new scheme, every student in the building was given an opportunity to do his bit in helping to keep North's dining room clean and pleasant. Each month six different homerooms, two for each lunch period, were appointed to assist the permanent cafeteria squad. Before the new squads started work, they were addressed by a member of the Speakers' Bureau of the Cafeteria Squad, who in turn introduced the members of the permanent squad. Members of this Bureau, which was under the chairmanship of John Meskill, were Grace McKinlay, Herbert Wheeler, Walter Fultz, Robert Thompson, and Patricia Waite. The permanent squad seniors were Grace' McKinlay, John Meskill, Robert Thompson, Herbert Wheeler, Walter F ultz, Patricia Waite, Marion King, Barbara Westhaver and George Wallace. l24l

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Student Secretarial Staff The Student Secretarial Staff is comprised of senior girls in the Commercial course, who are willing to devote free time to assisting members of North's faculty. The purpose of the work is twofold: first, to give the girls practical business experience, and second, to be of service to the school. Each girl is assigned as a secretary to a teacher, and it is her duty to perform the tasks which the as- signed teacher may have for her. These tasks include clerical and stenographic duties, such as filing, taking dictation, typing, and running duplicate copies on the Mimeograph and Ditto. Secretaries are also as- signed as afternoon assistants to the principals of the Quincy, Squantum, Montclair, and Wollaston schools. The staff will certainly be missed Whenrjune comes, as they have done creditable iiivork. North Quincy High is to be commended for giving the Senior commercial girls the opportunity to profit from this valuable experience. i261